In a significant judgment handed down in respect of Amgen’s European Patent EP3666797, which is a member of a patent…

Sequences are standardised representations of biological sequences, typically nucleotide (DNA/RNA) or amino acid (protein) sequences, that are included in patent…

On 25 September 2025, the EPO’s Enlarged Board of Appeal (‘EBoA’) issued its decision in case G 2/24, the third…

A Briefing Paper Antibodies and their derivatives, including bispecific and multispecific antibodies, fragments, and fusion products, have become central to…

The Unified Patent Court (UPC) allows granted European patents to be enforced or challenged centrally and for a single ruling…

The Unified Patent Court (UPC) has issued its first decision on patent infringement by equivalence in Plant-e Knowledge B.V. &…

The UK Intellectual Property Office (UK IPO) has recently announced the launch of its new ‘One IPO Search’ tool to…

A recent EPO Board of Appeal (BoA) decision (T 1553/22) considered the patentability of human-animal chimeras (organisms or tissues that…

The beginning of the end? Practice at the European Patent Office (EPO) currently requires that, before an application is granted,…

Abstract Shortly after celebrating its one-year anniversary, things look to be very much in full swing for the Unitary Patent…

The High Court has recently issued a significant decision which could make it easier to patent AI inventions at the…

Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic there have been remarkable research and innovation efforts to fight the SARS-COV-2 virus….